Princeton's Black Community Explored Through Princeton University Fellowship

Matthew Hersh

Last week at the Princeton Public Library, at a meeting about developmental possibilities of the Witherspoon Street corridor, Shirley Satterfield told a room packed with Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood residents that the history of the neighborhood is what would, or "should," ultimately design its future.

School Board Looks to Find Funds For JW Softball Fields

Candace Braun

Faced with an ongoing lawsuit from parents of female athletes at Princeton High School, the Princeton Regional School Board was set to vote on a resolution last night that would move the district closer to examining the possibility of adding new softball fields at John Witherspoon Middle School.

Johnson Park School Entrance Doesn't Merit Traffic Signal

Matthew Hersh

Members from the Mercer County Engineering Department appeared before Township Committee Monday night to deliver a presentation that effectively forestalls the possibility of placing a traffic signal at the intersection of Rosedale Road and General Johnson Road – the Johnson Park School entrance.

Lottery Awards All Who Registered A Shot at the Coveted Flu Vaccination

Matthew Hersh

The day so many Princetonians were waiting for finally came Friday when hundreds of eligible recipients who registered for a flu vaccine lottery were able to receive their much-coveted shot.

Nikole Thomas

PROFILES IN EDUCATION

Candace Braun

The Eden Institute's Nikole Thomas

A Saucy Tale of Mistaken Commas and Missing Apostrophes

Stuart Mitchner

Lynne Truss is a self-proclaimed "stickler" for proper punctuation. The author's photo on the jacket of her best-selling book, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Gotham, $17.50), shows her with a marking pen in the act of attempting to add an apostrophe after the "s" in a poster advertising the movie Two Weeks Notice. The absence of that apostrophe (in letters four feet high on the side of a London bus) stunned her to a standstill one day. This traumatic event is only one example of the "ghastly private emotional process similar to the stages of bereavement" that ultimately inspired her to write this book.

A Tragedy of London's Past: Authors Write On The Plague

Candace Braun

Last Tuesday, Princeton authors A. Lloyd and Dorothy C. Moote discussed their recently published book, The Great Plague: London's Deadliest Year, at the Princeton Public Library. The Moote's book details the lives of nine individuals who lived through the Great Plague of London, which killed almost 100,000 between 1664 and 1665.